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    April, A Month In Verse
    April, A Month In Verse
    April, A Month In Verse
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    April, A Month In Verse

    By Wilfred Owen, John Bannister Tabb and Christina Georgina Rossetti

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    Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at each calendar month through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a guide to the days within each. This volume of Poetry is all about April - the fourth month of the year in our Gregorian calendar heralding Spring in earnest and of course April Showers and perhaps other unsettled weather. For our poets including Wilfred Owen, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Alford, Robert Browning, Henry Van Dyke, Percy Byssche Shelley and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow the month provides a rich source for them to muse upon. Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry. Many samples are at our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. Among the readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

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    Release dateSep 24, 2013
    ISBN9781780005201
    April, A Month In Verse
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    Wilfred Owen

    Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon and stood in contrast to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke.

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      April, A Month In Verse - Wilfred Owen

      April, A Month In Verse

      Poetry is a fascinating use of language.  With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries.  In this series we look at each calendar month through the eyes and minds of our most gifted poets to bring you a guide to the days within each.  

      This volume of Poetry is all about April - the fourth month of the year in our Gregorian calendar heralding Spring in earnest and of course April Showers and perhaps other unsettled weather.  For our poets including Wilfred Owen, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Alford, Robert Browning, Henry Van Dyke, Percy Byssche Shelley and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow the month provides a rich source for them to muse upon.   Many of the poems are also available as an audiobook from our sister company Portable Poetry.  Many samples are at our youtube channel   http://www.youtube.com/user/PortablePoetry?feature=mhee   The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.  Among the readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe

      Index Of Poems

      It Was An April morning Fresh And Clear by William Wordsworth

      An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

      Elegy In April And September by Wilfred Owen

      April by Sara Teasdale

      Over The Land In April by Robert Louis Stevenson

      April by Algernon Charles Swinburne

      My April Lady by Henry Van Dyke

      Rome: Building A New Street In The Ancient Quarter (April, 1887) by Thomas Hardy

      An April Love by Alfred Austin

      A Petition To April, Written During Sickness by Susanna Blamire

      Endorsement To The Deed Of Separation In The April Of 1816 by Lord George Gordon Byron

      Stanzas April 1814 by Percy Bysshe Shelley

      A Letter To Dafnis April: 2d 1685 by Anne Kingsmill Finch

      On A Nightingale In April by William Sharp

      Spinning In April by Josephine Preston Peabody

      San Francisco: April 18,1906 by Ina D Coolbirth

      Here By The Brimming April Streams by Phillip Henry Savage

      Hastings In April by Bessie Rayner Parkes

      Love Like An April Day Beguiles by James Bland Burges

      April by John Bannister Tabb

      April Showers by Menella Bute Smedley

      An April Gust by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

      Stanzas To April And Invitation To Garibaldi by Janet Hamilton

      The Soul Of April by Bliss William Carman

      Under The April Moon by Bliss William Carman

      April Evening, France, April 1916 by John William Streets

      Sonnet To April by Henry Kirke White

      April – And Dying by Anne Reeve Aldrich

      Written April 18th 1796 by Matilda Betham

      Written On The Day Of General Thanksgiving April 14th 1833 by Henry Alford

      An April Fool by Alfred Austin

      Be Ye In Love With April Tide by Clinton Scollard

      April 1844 by Henry Alford

      The Famous Speech-Maker Of England Or Baron (Alias Barren) Lovel’s Charge At The Assizes At Exon, April 5, 1710 by Jonathan Swift

      The Idler’s Calendar.  Twelve Sonnets For The Month. April by Wilfred

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